Kick-Off Postponed Serie A Official

ROME - Games opening Serie A 2011/2012 ascertained pending. Italian footballer Association (AIC) said he would do the boycott, not following the agreement with the club.

Wednesday, 18 of 20 Italians urged the club to fulfill their requests related to tax payments. Unfortunately, the results of AIC meeting with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Calcio did not come to fruition. As a result, AIC had declared a strike would be playing, so the competition is scheduled for opening Serie A weekend is officially delayed.

"There will be no Serie A this weekend. We've tried (to find a solution) until the last minute (Friday), but unfortunately the talks ended in vain, "said president of AIC Damiano Tommasi after attending a meeting, as quoted by Goal, Friday (26/08/2011).

This strike action had to be done because the AIC and the Lega Calcio FIGC reluctant to approve their requests related to the collective agreement, the matter of tax payments. Known, recently the Italian government announced extra taxes to pay players who reached more than 90 thousand euros per year.

This is one of the things mentioned make the negotiation process was also found common ground. As is known, the base of this problem is to request players to clubs bear their taxes, while the club insisted the players must pay their own taxes.

With this strike, then the opening match of Serie A that was originally held this weekend by presenting two games, against Fiorentina and Siena the defending champion AC Milan Cagliari cons, officially postponed.

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